22-Apr-2010 - Bank Group President, Donald Kaberuka, on Tuesday, 20 April 2010 in Tunis, received Senegal’s international cooperation and infrastructure minister, Karim Wade. Discussions between both men focused on the excellent cooperation between the Bank and Senegal. They also reviewed Bank-financed projects in the country. With regard to infrastructure projects, the minister explained that “The Bank is involved in on-going key infrastructure projects in my country, in particular, the airport, the port, toll route and in a number of projects in the...
21-Apr-2010 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has played a key role in helping Africa adequately respond to the global financial crisis. Now that the crisis is over, how does the future look like for African countries and what role will the Bank knowledge activities play in building stronger African continent? What should be the role of research at the Bank to ensure that it becomes more relevant to the institution?
21-Apr-2010 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) legal counsel, Kalidou Gadio, was in the U.S. where he participated in the 2010 Harvard African Law and Development Conference from 16-18 April 2010. Speaking during the event, Mr. Gadio focused on "The role of law in development for the African continent from a development agency perspective."
21-Apr-2010 - Tunis, 21 April 2010 - Over the past one year, the African Development Bank (AfDB) has registered tremendous achievements in the area of climate change.
21-Apr-2010 - Tunis, 21 April 2010 - The Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), organized in Tunis, 19-21 April 2010, a seminar on the preparation of its Triennale on education in Africa, a major event bringing together all of the major actors involved in or supporting the development of education in Africa.
20-Apr-2010 - Tunis, 20 April 2010 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group is undertaking a study to produce an “Africa Green Growth Strategy”.
The Bank will present the draft Strategy at regional stakeholders’ workshops in August and September 2010. A pilot Action Plan will then be established. It will include about five strategic pilot projects that focus on technology transfer of renewable energies as well as the need to ensure an appropriate political, institutional and regulatory framework that will guarantee the sustainability of the green...
19-Apr-2010 - The Making Finance Work for Africa Partnership launched today www.mfw4a.org, a website that, for the first time, centralizes knowledge, news, and opinions on African financial sectors.
16-Apr-2010 - «Au Mali, la Banque intervient dans les domaines les plus utiles. Elle nous a assisté à mieux connaître l’eau, à la maîtriser et à la gérer... Elle nous a aussi aidé à aménager les espaces, ce qui fait de notre pays l’un des plus importants producteurs de céréales en Afrique», a indiqué en substance, le ministre malien de l’énergie et de l’eau, Igor Diarra, sortant d’une entrevue, avec le président Donald Kaberuka, ce mercredi 14 avril 2010, à l’Agence Temporaire de Relocalisation de la BAD à Tunis.
16-Apr-2010 - Au cours des cérémonies d’ouverture de la Rencontre de partenariat Tunise-Afrique (15-16 avril 2010), à Tunis, les présentateurs ont souligné l’importance pour les Africains de commercer davantage entre eux, rappelant les nombreuses opportunités d’affaires qui existent sur le continent, mais qui sont trop souvent exploitées par la communauté d’affaires d’autres continents.
14-Apr-2010 - L’administrateur pour la France à la Banque africaine de développement (BAD), M. Emmanuel Carrère et M. Albert-Enéas Gakusi, du Département de l’évaluation des opérations de la BAD, ont participé à la septième réunion du Comité de pilotage pour l’évaluation rétrospective des contributions de la France au groupe de la Banque à Paris le 9 avril 2010.
14-Apr-2010 - Tunis, Tunisia, 15 April 2010 – The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group and Uganda have signed loan agreements amounting to USD 136.6 million (UA 90 million*) to fund two major projects in the country.
The Bank’s Uganda Field Office (UGFO) Resident Representative, Patrick Khaemba, and Uganda’s Finance Minister, Syda Bbumba, signed the loan agreements on 12 April 2010 in Kampala, to finance the country’s third Road Sector Support Project (RSSP3) and the Rural Income and Employment Enhancement Project (RIEEP).
13-Apr-2010 - Le Groupe de la Banque africaine de développement (BAD) et l’Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture (FAO), ont remis, le 7 avril 2010, à Bouaké, des motoculteurs à des groupements de producteurs agricoles. Cette cérémonie conjointe (BAD-FAO) s’inscrit dans le cadre de l’exécution du projet d’appui institutionnel multisectoriel, en vue de la sortie de crise.
13-Apr-2010 - Tanzanian finance minister, Mustafa Mkulo, attended, during the week from 5 April-9 April 2010, the AfDB’s annual stakeholders cocktail hosted by African Development Bank’s (AfDB) Tanzania Resident Representative, Sipho Moyo, in Dar-es-Salaam.
13-Apr-2010 - Bamako le 13 avril 2010- Le Bureau national de la Banque africaine de développement au Mali, en collaboration avec le Ministère de l’Energie et de l’Eau a organisé le vendredi 9 avril 2010, un atelier de restitution des résultats de l’Etude sur la Stratégie de développement de la maîtrise de l’énergie au Mali.
08-Apr-2010 - AfDB water and sanitations experts and a Moroccan delegation from the country’s national water authority (ONEP) and economy ministry have entered into discussion regarding the financing of a water project in the country.
The discussions, which ran from 1-2 April 2010, focused on the Bank Group’s financing of a water supply project along the Rabat-Casablanca coast.
08-Apr-2010 - Under the umbrella of the Joint Partnership for Africa (JPA), a partnership of the AfDB and the IMF, the African Development Institute (ADI) on Monday, April 5, 2010, in Tunis launched a seminar on financial safeguards at central banks.
The event, which runs from April 5-9, 2010, has brought together some 30 participants from 27 African countries.
The program will enable senior central banks officials from across the continent familiarize themselves with the knowledge and tools required to assess and monitor financial safeguards at their...
06-Apr-2010 - AfDB President, Donald Kaberuka, on Tuesday, April 6, 2010, ended his official visit to Japan. Mr. Kaberuka used the final day of his visit to meet with the country’s political authorities.
Besides meetings with the country’s vice minister of foreign affairs and finance minister, Mr. Kaberuka and his delegation held working sessions with Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) officials. Discussions with JICA President, Sadako Ogata, focused on cooperation between both institutions.
06-Apr-2010 - The Burundi infrastructure action plan was jointly presented by the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group and the country’s public works ministry on Friday, 2 April 2010 in Bujumbura, during a workshop chaired by the country’s second vice president, Gabriel Ntisezerana, in the presence of the country’s finance minister, Clotilde Nizigama, and the AfDB Country and regional Programs and Policy Operations Vice President, Aloysius Ordu. Some eighty participants, representing the government, the private sector, development partners and donors,...
05-Apr-2010 - After visiting Osaka in the first leg of his visit Japan, the AfDB President, Donald Kaberuka, on Monday, April 5, 2010, headed to Tokyo, the nation’s capital, where he held discussions with the head of the Japanese Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), Hiroshi Watanabe, and officials of the Asian Development Bank. JBIC co-finances several projects with the AfDB, especially in the area of infrastructure development. The two officials explored possibilities for greater collaboration between their institutions.
02-Apr-2010 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group President, Donald Kaberuka, on Friday, April 2, 2010, started the first leg of his official visit to Japan in Osaka, the country’s economic capital and business hub. Mr. Kaberuka had several meetings with key businesspeople in the city. He also met with officials of major Japanese multinationals who enabled him get a better understanding of the expectations of Japanese entrepreneurs, their perspectives on Africa’s development and their expectations of the AfDB.
